I want to retrieve IP Addresses from computer names but I ONLY want the IP nothing more.
$computer = 'Server1'
$computer = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($computer) | select IPAddressToString
Returns @{IPAddressToString=x.x.x.x}. How do I return 'x.x.x.x'
Using your example, you'd type $Computer.IPAddressToString to return the array of IP addresses. If there is only 1 IP address for that hostname, then that's all there is. However, a hostname may have many addresses, and that's why it's an array. So if you only want to see the first IP address in the array, you could type $Computer.IPAddressToString[0]
Replace
| select IPAddressToString
With (Powershell 2.0+)
| select -First 1 -ExpandProperty IPAddressToString
Or, in the case where you want to work with an array
| select -ExpandProperty IPAddressToString
This will give you an array of strings, so if you want individual addresses, use something like
([System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($computer) | select -ExpandProperty IPAddressToString)[0]
-select -ExpandProperty Text also worked for me when getting the inner text value (as opposed to the @{Text=} format) of a RadioButton whose declaration and whose Text values were all created programmatically from a function and an array, respectively. The missing piece was using Select -ExpandProperty Text instead of Select-Object Text.
add ().IpAddressToString
([Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses('Server1')).IpAddressToString
I do it this way all the time with foreach, as opposed to select -expand:
$computer = 'Server1'
$computer = [Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($computer) | foreach IPAddressToString
